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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 17, 1897 
Humorous. 
Her escort was a fresh young Mr., 
And that night he warmly kr.; 
But the kiss raised such a blr. 
She would not be e’en his sr.— The World. 
Amy : “ Mabel, do you ever thick 
about marriage?” Mabel: “Think is 
no name for it. I worry .”—Harlem Life. 
Pokt : “Do you get many lays?” 
Editor : “Yes; quite a number of people 
pay their subscriptions in eggs .—New 
York Journal. 
“ No, I don’t like the looks of this 
chicken.” “Why, has it been dead too 
long?” “No, but I’m afraid it : s been 
alive too long .”—Credit Lost. 
There had been a little family jar, 
and she was sulking. “ You have no 
right to refuse me,” she said. “ When 
I promised to marry you I told you that 
I always wanted my own way and you 
said that made no difference.” “ Well, 
it doesn’t, does it ? ” he retorted. “ You 
don’t get it, do you ? ”—Chicago Post. 
“ I presume,” said the talkative man 
to his seat mate in the railway train, 
“ from your manner and conversation, 
that you have family ties.” “Yes,” replied 
Mr. Meekton ; “ I s’pose you might as 
well call ’em that. I buy ’em for myself, 
but my wife and the girls wear ’em 
whenever they feel like it .”—Washington 
Star. 
“ What is heredity, mamma ?” asked 
the little girl, spelling the word through 
her falling tears, and waiting to write 
down the meaning. “It is—’m, how 
shall I explain it ? Oh,” said the 
mother, “ something you get from your 
father or me.” And the small child 
wrote down on her paper of home les¬ 
sons :—“ Heredity— spankiag.” — Phila¬ 
delphia Post 
“ Miss Frown told me that you paid 
her such a charming compliment the 
other evening,” said Mrs. Coddington to 
her husband, “ something about her 
being pretty. The poor girl was so 
pleased. I don’t see how you men can 
be so untruthful.” “ I should think 
you’d know by this time that I’m never 
untruthful,” said Mr. Coddington, re¬ 
proachfully. “ I said she was just as 
pretty as she could be, and so she was.” 
— Harper's Bazar. 
Mb. Suburb : “ What on earth are you 
trying to do, neighbor ? ” Mr. Nexdoor: 
“ Merely taking down a little of this 
fence, so that I can move my chicken 
house over into your yard.” “ Eh ? My 
yard?” “ Yes, I like to be neighborly 
and considerate to other people’s feel¬ 
ings, you know.” “But—er”— “Yes, 
you shan’t have any more cause to com¬ 
plain about my chickens scratching up 
your yard.” “ But you are moving your 
whole house over on to my property ! ” 
“That’s the idea. As soon as the 
chickens find their house in your yard, 
they’ll conclude that you own them, and 
will spend the rest of their natural lives 
scratching in my yard, you know.”— 
Pearson's Weekly. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorkkb, July 17, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Hoeing the. Wheat Crop.466 
Killing Wild Onion.468 
Waterproof Hay Caps.468 
Hay Caps and Clover.468 
What Is “ A Bushel Crate ” ?.473 
Hope Farm Notes.478 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Suggestions Regarding Cream Ripening.465 
Dairying on Small Farm.466 
Watch the Horse’s Shoulders.468 
Horse Eats His Manger.469 
A Case of Bloody Milk.469 
Contracted Foot in Horse.469 
No “Sure Cure” for Heaves.469 
Some Poultry Experience.471 
The Egg for Hatching.478 
Dry Nurse for Calves.479 
The Horn Fly.479 
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Leaf Curl in Michigan Peach Orchards.467 
Fitting Soil for Strawberries.467 
Budding Orange Trees.468 
Hybrid Gooseberries. 468 
United States Senators as Horticulturists.... 468 
Sweet-and-Sour Apples.468 
Pinching Off Melon Vines.468 
Harlequin Bugs on Cabbage; Gooseberries... 469 
Strawberry Culture in Kansas.469 
Apples for North Carolina.469 
What Strawberries to Plant.469 
Strawberry Notes for 1897.470, 471 
Plants for a Sunny Bed.475 
Planting Under Trees.475 
Rose Rust.475 
Easter Lilies.475 
Some Maryland Fruit Notes.477 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
A Domestic Symposium.474 
Home and School Education.474 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials. 472 
Brevities.472 
Among the Marketmen.473 
Business Bits.473 
As We Go To Press.476 
Notes from Wisconsin. 177 
Seasonable Scraps.477 
Markets. 477 
Humorous. 480 
